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scorpiojay  +  80012 Thu, 10 Mar 05 05:54 AM
hi !I'm new here.nice to see you all.please help me to find a long English word.my curiosity asked me to do this kind of thing.......Stick out tongue [:P]
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David  +  80047 Thu, 10 Mar 05 09:01 AM
Smiles. A mile between the two ss. Antidisestablishmentarianism. Hope I spelt it correctly.
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Guest, 4 yr 235 days ago
do chemical names count?
nona the brit  +  82771 Mon, 21 Mar 05 05:06 PM
We have already had an absolutely huge debate on this recently and I think the number of posts went into the 100s. I don't think we want to start it all over again so I am cutting this thread off here, sorry.

Please run a quick search of the forum and you will find the existing thread.
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The name says it all.
Anonymous, 4 yr 104 days ago
floccinaucinihilipilification is longer than antidisastablishmentarianism by one letter but is not as well known. Some people also say that pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word. I'm not sure what is right
Anonymous, 4 yr 101 days ago

Mate that's not English, That is from Latin, Its the same in all languages.

Scientific names are International names and they are the same all over the world!

Anonymous, 4 yr 99 days ago
PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS (45 letters; a lung disease caused by breathing in certain particles) is the longest word in any English-language dictionary. (It is also spelled -koniosis.)
Anonymous, 4 yr 83 days ago

How can pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis be a single word? Isn't it just silicovolcanoconiosis of a pneumonoultramicroscopic nature? Doesn't that mean that all microscopic specimens can be microscopicspecimens, or microscopic doses microscopicdoses, etc.?

When are you allowed to form a long word from an adjective and noun and when not?

Patheticpedanticidioticneuroticpsychoticmanicsycophanticantilogologist

Anonymous, 4 yr 51 days ago
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
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